Robert A. Heinlein Vintage Signet Paperback Lot of 4 Puppet Masters Double Star Farnham's Freehold Green Hills of Earth
$29.99
This is a bundle of four vintage Robert A. Heinlein Signet paperbacks: The Puppet Masters, Double Star, Farnham's Freehold, and The Green Hills of Earth.
The covers show normal shelf wear, but the bold 1960s and 1970s Signet artwork is still bright, especially the psychedelic covers on The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and Farnham's Freehold.
Together these books cover alien invaders that take over human minds, an out-of-work actor forced to double for a famous politician, a family thrown into a strange future after a nuclear attack, and Heinlein's Future History stories of the first pioneers in space. As a little bonus, a vintage Flint Central High School Boosters raffle ticket is still tucked between the pages of Double Star.
Details
- Item: Lot of 4 vintage science fiction paperbacks
- Title: The Puppet Masters; Double Star; Farnham's Freehold; The Green Hills of Earth
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- Illustrator: Not confirmed from photos
- Publisher: Signet, The New American Library, New York
- Publication Year: Copyrights 1951 to 1964. These printings date from about the mid-1960s to the late 1970s.
- Edition and Printing: The Green Hills of Earth is the seventh printing (T3193, 75 cents). Farnham's Freehold is the seventh printing (T2704, 75 cents). Double Star is a later printing, with a number line starting at 14 (Y6606, $1.25). The Puppet Masters is a later printing, with a number line starting at 17 (W7339, $1.50).
- Format and Binding: Mass market paperback
- Dust Jacket: None, as issued
- Pages: 175 (The Puppet Masters), 128 (Double Star), 256 (Farnham's Freehold), 176 (The Green Hills of Earth)
- Genre: Science fiction
- Language: English
- ISBN: None
- Dimensions: 7 in x 4 in each
Condition Grade: Good
Positives
- Graded Good: All four are complete, and their spines and bindings are intact, with every flaw named here.
- The color cover art is bright and bold on all four books.
- The text is clean and readable throughout.
- The page edges are colored as issued: red on The Green Hills of Earth and yellow on the others.
- A vintage Flint Central High School Boosters raffle ticket is still tucked inside Double Star.
Issues / Wear
- All four covers show shelf wear, front and back.
- Double Star has small pokes or dents on the front cover.
- Farnham's Freehold has a crease in the cover that shows when the book is opened.
- The Green Hills of Earth and Farnham's Freehold have an old price penciled on the first page.
- A used bookstore name is stamped on the page edges of The Puppet Masters.
- The pages are toned with age.
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Four Heinlein classics with the original Signet cover art make an easy add to any science fiction shelf. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
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- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
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- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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